I’m 70 and the same way. Get a friend and you have a job, you become a bank, you have someone to nitpick your ass all the time. I have drinking buddies and not a one would DARE come to my house, give me unwanted advice or invite me to their house. I’m satisfied.
I am in my 50’s and I have one male friend at work in his 60’s. He seeks me out for advice and is a nervous type who could be clingy if I allowed it, he’s broke thanks to his ex-psycho wife, he seeks advice and won’t listen to it and is in chronic misery-I think he has to have it. I don’t go to his house and he’s certainly not coming to mine. We talk at work and that’s it.
I have a couple of female friends at work, who are quite civilized and charming, we exchange birthday presents and Christmas presents and on a few occasions go to each others houses or hang out together with each others families. Mainly family comes to my house and I got to families houses. My wife and I are just not big on parties and entertaining a bunch of non-family people.